Lost and Found and Classified Notices Across Town
Missing items include a black eight year old mare with a small white star, reported by Ed Swift. a lost collarette between Kuoreka and Washington. a lady’s gold brooch. and multiple rental and sale notices. Help sought by the Journal office and local addresses for returns or inquiries. Also advertisements for domestic help, land, and flowers from Kemble’s Flowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Swift
Inquire Journal Ofice
Journal Ofice
Journal
M. Gallagher
Change at Academy Names New Head for Coming Year
Prof Grumbling retires after three years at Washington Academy and Prof Dodd of Wy man, a Cedar Falls Normal graduate, Howe s Academy and Iowa State University alum, is elected to lead next year. Dodd, 30, is praised as educated and ambitious and urged to raise enrollment and standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Academy
Calvin
Dodd
Wyman
J. B Dodd
George Dodd
Burlington Business College
Cedar Falls Normal School
Howe's Academy of
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa State University
Iowa City
Washington
Grambling
Cruelty to Animals and a Seance Twist
In a witty Pearson's Weekly sketch a dog allegedly goes mad and bites a professor. A seance scene unfolds with a tall, dark eyed spirit and a man grieving for a long missed friend. The medium offers consolation and a twist reveals the dead man was his wife’s first husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Ite
Pearson's Weekly
Leap year proposal scene from London Tit Bits
A London Tit-Bits excerpt shows Mamie and John in a playful leap year proposal exchange with Mamie refraining from proposing and urging John to propose in the old fashioned way. The tone is tender and humorous about romance. A separate notes column lists Ecuador contracts and a headless body discovery in Massachusetts plus a Chicago shooting incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fally
John
Mamie
London
Ecuador
United States
Chelmsford Center
Mass
Joseph Jelinek
Chicago
Ladislay Glaza
McKinley Declines Third Term
Washington June 11 Special to The Journal President McKinley has officially announced that he is not a candidate in the third term He regrets that suggestion has been made and would decline nomination
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, DC
Tak Even the Journal
McKinley
Swell Dinner at Hotel Stevenson and City Hall Meeting
County physicians gathered for a noon dinner at Hotel Stevenson with a large group in attendance. An afternoon program was planned at City Hall as part of a meeting by the physicians, including numerous doctors and accompanying ladies from Wayland Crawfordsville Ainsworth Winfield Brighton and nearby communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hotel Stevenson
City Hall
Jenkins
Ada
Hay
McClelland
Stewart
Boice
Wickham
McConnaughey
Wayland
McLaughlin
Crawfordsville
Hull
McCaw
Winfield
Hamilton
Ainsworth
Fordyce
Parke
Brighton
Jones
Cora Smeltzer
Mattie Dill
Demise of an Aged Lady in West Part of City
Mrs D A Logan died at noon today at her West South street home after a prolonged illness. Born Zerilda J McKvaine in Kentucky on November 21 1823 she married in 1841 and moved to Iowa in 1845 becoming a Brighton township resident before relocating to town last March. She leaves a husband five daughters and a son who died young. funeral arrangements to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. A. Logan
West South Street
Zerilda J. McKvaine
Harriton County
Kentucky
Iowa
Brighton Township
Logan
First
U. P
Brighton
Scott
Jennie Smith
Lyons
Kan
Hattie Havens
Des Moines
Mary
D. R. Ritchey
Ellen Rice
Tingley
Birthday fete for Master Allen Rice in Oskaloosa
A fifth birthday party for Allen Rice was celebrated at his grandmother Mrs. A Gray's home in southwest Washington. Misses Lucille Miller Hazel Stewart and Master George Stewart helped entertain with song and recitation. Refreshments delighted the children as gifts were left for the host. Attendees included Helen Hazel Stewart Lucille Montgomery Enore Hayes Mildred Rice Blanche Glick Lucille Miller Ray Guest Earle Fulton Allen and Frank Rice and George Stewart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Rice
Oskaloosa
A. Gray
Washington
Lucille Miller
Hazel Stewart
George Stewart
Helen
Lucille Montgomery
Enore Hayes
Mildred Rice
Blanche Glick
Ray Guest
Earle Fulton
Allen
Frank Rice
Small outbuilding fire quelled near water works
A fire alarm rang this afternoon but the fire company did not respond. The foreman determined the blaze was out, traced to an outbuilding of Robert Emery north of the water works, likely from an unknown cause. Marshal Ragan and others helped extinguish it. Fraternal Aid plans evening meeting at U V A Hall over the south side meat market. Chauncey Teeter traveled to Harper Kansas for summer with relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Emery
Marshal Ragan
Frank Webb
Mr. Ish
South Side
Officials Coming For Milwaukee Railway Work Today
Three contractors tied to the Milwaukee cut off grading were driven by Casey Livery to Muscatine. Casey Bros plan another trip to Muscatine tomorrow and will bring back Milwaukee officials on Thursday. Suther land arrives to secure options on local property, though not binding on the railway. Engineers at Hotel Stevenson depart. several parties set HQs in Ainsworth Coneville Richland and Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Casey
Muscatine
Casey Bros
H. A. Sutherland
Hotel Stevenson
Nickerson
Ainsworth
Savage
Rollins
Coneville
P. M. Scheid
Wisconsin
Richland
H. O. Evans
Chicago
I. W. Walker
A. G. Baker
Thanks to Friends for Kindness in Sickness and Death
Mrs. Jobo D. Logan and family extend thanks to friends for attentiveness and kindness during the sickness and death of husband and father. Advertisement notes Rocky Mountain Tea by Madison Medicine Co. 35e and sale at Stewart's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jobo D. Logan
Madison Medicine Co
Stewart's
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C. Carris & CO
Baird & Johnson
leCall Bros
M. Lombardo's
Second U.P
Kuoreka
Horace Catlin
Burlington
St. Jouie
Aquare
O. M. Keon
Kemble
Emble Flower Co
Prof
Grumbling
Ian
Prof. Dodd
The
State University
Mr. Grumbling
Snagroota
Chicago Newa
Lemmon & Lewis
East Side
Diana
Mftg. Co
WM. Blair & Son
Chauncey Teeter
Hugh Teeter
Harper, Kans
Walther
Schneider
Milwaukee Railway
Chicago News
Nervita Medical Co
Clinton and
Jackson Sts
Illinois
J. H. Stewart
West Side
Windsor Grocery
Grace Hotel
Jackson Boulevard
Clark Street
Gorda
Miesiasippi River
Todd Stuart
City Market
Oscar Solbrig
J. J. McKeone
East Main St
Charley
WREST
le Fet iv
Columbus Junction
California
V. Rk, Stewart, Agt
N. W
B&q
Peoria
Indianapolis
Ind
Cincinnati
Cedar Rapids
Yondagstowa
Norees A. m
A. North
West Ant
Mason City Mail
St. Paul
Sun
Marshalltown
O & N 'Way
Omaha
Denver
JN Tittemore
Geo 8
Wit
Gpatia
Tremere
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